Dalton

CRS Code	DLT
Collected date	12/09/14

Dalton station bookended our seventh day in the north west, which featured a whistlestop tour of the nuclear sites of the Cumbria coast... The station building is mostly in private hands now, and sits just to the north of the line:

This iron gateway sits at the entrance to the platform, just left of the station front:

On platform 1, looking back at the station building and archway:

Although there is a modern shelter, an archway in the original building also provides covered waiting:

The platform-facing gable end has a space where once a clock sat:

The station building is decorated with architectural features like this:

The rest of the rear of the station building, fenced from the platform:

On platform 1 looking west:

Beyond the end of the opreational platform is a scrub of dead grass:

Back in the middle of platform 1, looking east towards the bridge which is the only way to get to the other platform:

Plaques on the fence alongside platform 1 celebrate George Romney who was born in Dalton, and the vast list of people who sponsored improvements to the station:

Looking back west from the eastern end of platform 1. The paintings on the fence are courtesy of the George Romney Junior School:

Steps lead up from the platforms to Station Road which crosses the line:

Looking west from the bridge at the platforms:

Looking east along the line from the bridge:

Looking along platform 2 from platform 1:

The brick shelter on platform 2:

Platform 2, looking back towards the bridge:

The fence on platform 2 is also decorated, though with mosaics. Here's a rainbow:

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